Washing machine



June 23', 1925. 1,543,323

0. T. DEHLE WASHING MACHINE Filed Sept. 6. 1924 Inn/21715 Q, 0660 T38R18,-

M I rn a Patented June 23, 1925.

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WASHING MACHINE.

Application filed September 6, 1924. Serial m. 786,308.

' To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I O'rro T. Dnnnn, a citizen of Australia, and town, in the county of Middlesex and Commonw'ealth of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Washing Machines, of whichthe following is a full, clear, aifd exact specification.

There are on the market certain ty vof washing machines, which, though quite efficient in their operation of cleansing the garments, possess the drawback of so snarling and tangling the clothes as to render the task of their separation more arduous than that of the washing. In such machines, there is an oscillating table which is vided with radial ribs b means of w 'ch the contents of the mac e are so vigorously agitated as to thoroughly. wash the clothes, but at the same time to wad them up in a tangled mass.

Attempts have been made to obviate this defect, but so far with indiflferent' success.

One method devised has been to provide the table with a central post or stem up whose. sides are run several ribs and by means of 1 which the objectionable tan ling has been partially overcome. The culty withthis machine is that the vertical ribs are mere prolongations of the radial ribs, and, further, that the vertical ribs in size as they approach the upper end of the post or stem.

In my improved washing machine, the vertical ribs are not made as prolongations of the radial ribs, but are independent thereof, each risin from a point midway between two of the ra ial ribs, and, in addition, each is constructed to increase in dimension to-- struction.

In the drawings forming part of this A s ecification, Fig. 1 is a vertical section of t e dolly of a washing machine, drawn on the line 1-1 in Fig. 2, and embodying my improvements.

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.ti cal ribs at their upper to give a strong radlal and centrifug'al throw to the tubs contents and thereby g from, said post having vertical ribs Fig. 2 is a plan view of the dolly, represented as having a part broken away.

The reference numeral 1 designates a part of the bottom of a washing machine tub, having a tubular post 2 rising centrally therefrom, through which post passes the rotatively oscillatin shaft 3 by means of which the agitator is actuated. A suitable distance above the tub-bottom is a table 4 composing a portion of the agitator, and provided with a tapering post or stem 5 whose agex is mounted on and oscillated by the she 33.

Reaching. from the post 5 to the outer margin of the table 4 are the radial 'ribs 6, here shown as four in number and equi- On the post 5 are an equal number of vertical ribs 7 whose outer edges are approximately vertical, whereby, through the strongly conical form of the post 5, each vertica rib is given a much greater radial dimension as it approaches'its upper end.

It is this increased dimension of the verortions which to prevent the massing and tangling of the clothes at the center; and by having the vertical ribs midway between and independent of the radial ribs, the opposing currents are rendered parallel and intermediate of each other, instead of meeting head-on and thereby neutralizing each other. Such paralleling of the water-currents serves to great- I hasten and morethoroughly accomplish t e cleansing of the garments being washed.

What I claim as my invention is: 1. A dolly for washing machines, comprising an oscillating table having radial ribs thereon, and a central post rising therefrom,

said post having vertlcal ribs radial dimension islarger at their upper ends than below. 4

2. A dolly for washing machines,

ing an oscillating table having radial thereon, and a conical centra post rising whose outer edges their upper radia dimension is' greater than their lower.

3. A dolly for washing machines, comprising an oscillating table having radial ribs thereon, and a central post risin thlere- W use therefrom, said post having vertical ribs are vertical, wherebyv upper radial dimension is greater than their lower radial dimension, and which are independent of said radial ribs.

4. A dolly for washing machines, comprising an oscillating table having radial ribs thereon, and a central post rising therefrom, said post having vertical ribs thereon the lower end of each of which is midway between two of said radial ribs, and the upper ends of which vertical ribs are greater in radial dimension than are their lower portions.

5. A dolly for washing machines, comprisin an oscillating table having radialribs t ereon, and a central conical post rising therefrom, said post having vertical ribs thereon equal in number to the radial ribs, each vertical rib having its lower end midway between two of said radial ribs, and its outer edge vertical, whereby to render its upper portion greater in radial dimension than its lower portion.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing invention, I have hereunto set my hand this third day of September, 1924.

OTTO T. DEHLE. 

